Must Read
August 2011
The Year’s 2nd Biggest ccTLD Sale Tops This Week’s DN Journal Domain Sales Chart
(August 31, 2011)After having just one name on last week's all extension Top 20 Sales Chart the country codes were back with a vengeance this week, taking the top spot on the elite list and five places over all. The non .com gTLDs also did well with four charted domains while the always dominant .coms took 11 places.
Jeff Kupietsky’s Last Day
(August 31, 2011)According to the news release from Oversee.net a few weeks ago, today is Jeff Kupietsky’s last day. I don’t know who is stepping into the role as Oversee CEO, but perhaps more information will be forthcoming. During Kupietsky’s tenure at Oversee (5 years with the company and 2.5 as President and CEO), the company became [...]
More Than 215 Million Domain Names Registered World Wide
(August 31, 2011)Verisign has released their latest issue of their quarterly Domain Industry Brief (PDF) today. The second quarter of 2011 closed with a base of more than 215 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of 5.2 million domain names, or 2.5 percent over the first quarter. registrations have grown by [...]
VeriSign: 5.2 Million More Domain Names
(August 31, 2011)Base of registered domain names continues to grow. VeriSign released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief today, reporting that the total base of domain names increased by 5.2 million last quarter to 215 million. Registrations have grown by more than 16.9 million since the second quarter of 2010. The total base of .com and .net [...]
TRAFFIC Ticket Price Increase Tonight
(August 31, 2011)For those of you who are either on the fence about attending TRAFFIC in Ft. Lauderdale in October or are just lazy and haven’t purchased your conference ticket yet, the price will increase tonight. The current rate is $1,595 and it will increase to $1,795 later on today. If you happen to live in the [...]
Could a Domain Appraisal Help You Sell a Domain Name?
(August 31, 2011)I have never been a fan of domain appraisals. My opinion is that a domain name is worth what someone will pay for it at a given time. In fact, I pretty much have a set response for when I am trying to buy a domain name and the owner suggests a domain appraisal to [...]
2012 Will be the year of 3 and 4 word domains
(August 31, 2011)I don't normally make predictions, publicly. Ok, maybe I have a couple of times. This one is a bit more bold, though. Perhaps it's because I work with so many search engine guys at our website broker service that's helping me form this opinion. Or maybe it's the press releases from companies like Bankrate where [...]
Top Domain Name Wire Stories of August 2011
(August 31, 2011)Top 5 domain name news stories for the past month. August is coming to a close and I’m thankful. Why? It’s been so damn hot here in Texas that I’m counting down the days until fall. We also had some hot news in the domain industry this month. Here are the top stories attracting views [...]
Thoughtful Analysis on the Current State of the New TLD Program
(August 31, 2011)New TLD program not exactly progressing at warp speed after approval. This is one of those blog posts where I essentially refer you to another blogger’s post. Kevin Murphy of DomainIncite published a story this morning titled “Should new gTLDs be delayed?” It’s a thoughtful piece that, as a fellow blogger, I know took some [...]
Is Rick.TV on the Horizon? Got 98 Minutes to Waste? My Most In-Depth Interview Ever!
(August 31, 2011)Morning Folks!! The written word is still the most powerful medium after all these years. But sometimes the written word can be interprerted in different ways. Wrong ways. Sometimes the true meaning is either lost or not evident as the infliction may not come through. The reason I use caps. Those are the points I want to stress but it is harder on paper sometimes than in person. Have 98 minutes to waste? This was my most in-depth interview ever. It covers quite a bit before the Internet and how it led me here. I have been considering replacing RicksBlog.com with Rick.tv next year. (Thanks J!) What do you think? Is there a difference between the meaning of the written...
A Brief History of DNS
